Thursday, February 11, 2021

February 10,  2021


HOME

 
It’s no accident that "home"
has such a comforting sound.
 
Home ….
 
A favorite chair …. knowing just
where the refrigerator door handle is.
 
Home ….
 
A broken-in-bed – my side is
my side – great for sleeping here.
 
Home ….
 
No dress code – it's where I can
be I and you can be you. Thanks.

Home….

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 



February 10,  2021


 

Thought for the Day

 

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

 F. Scott Fitzgerald


Painting by George Bellows
Dempsey and Firpo
1923-24
Firpo knocked Dempsey 
out of the ring
but Dempsey won 
the fight that lasted 4 minutes.



Tuesday, February 9, 2021

February  9,  2021 


VIEWPOINTS

 
Do we all see life
from different viewpoints?
 
Do we ever talk to each other
about what and how we see?
 
How would a grandmother in a rocker
see her  grandchild with a big dark dog?
 
How does a person in a wheelchair
see the world as she rolls by?
 
How does the kid who couldn’t make the
team feel at a Friday night football game?
 
What does a dad feel when he buys his son
and all his friends ice cream on the way home
from the game?
 
What does a mother-in-law feel when she
sees her son cheating on her daughter-in-law?
 
What do their kids feel when they find out their
mom and dad – now in their seventies – go  out
for a walk every evening holding hands.
 
Do we all see life
from different viewpoints?
 
Do we ever talk to each other
about how we see and how we feel?


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 


February  9,  2021

 


Thought for the Day

 

“The world only exists in your eyes.  You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Monday, February 8, 2021

February 8,  2021




BROKEN  PRAYERS

BROKEN PEOPLE

BROKEN  GOD
 
 
Who in the world came up with
the comment that we can’t have
distractions when we pray?
 
Then they add the whammy:
"It’s a sin."  As priest I have heard
that too many, many times.
 
We talk to each other on broken
and shaky chairs at times. We get
phone calls during supper.

David, a thief of another man's wife
sang his broken Hallelujahs, and sang
his lonely Hallelujahs to the Lord of Song.
 
We’re not God. We get distractions
and 5 cents says that God gets
interrupted over and over again.
 
So “Hallelujah” - God here I am
as I am -  “Hallelujah!” And thank
You for being You, every time.

And "Hallelujah" for your broken
prayers from your broken body
on a bloody, broken cross. "Hallelujah!"
 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021


February  8,  2021


Thought for the Day

 

“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”



F. Scott Fitzgerald


 February 7,  2021


NEED A THEME 
TO THINK ABOUT?

 
Youth and aging jump off the page.
You can hear it in many a song as well.
It sells clothes and hopes and fantasies.
It sells shoes and styles and dreams.
 
The young want to look older.
The older hope they look young.
The young talk about weekends.
The old talk about health.
 
Clocks tick. Calendars turn.
Too many tomorrows and yesterdays
have come and gone and it’s smart
to make today to  make sense.
 
The young get stuck in the future;
the old get suck in the past; and
surprise, Shakespeare’s sonnets and
Willie Nelson finally make a lot of sense.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021